What does everyone around here seem to hate about the Mortal Kombat games?

I mean, I haven’t played any of those games in a while, but I remember the MK games in the mid 90’s alot more than I remembered the street fighter games. They seemed more well known and popular at that time.

MK games are often an unbalanced mess of a fighting game hidden under silly annual gimmicks. It’s lack of depth is a major point of issue. Also factor in the developer’s disinterest in making MK a truly competitive, tourny viable game. Me and my friends brainstormed better Mortal Kombat games than the ones that were released, just as many others have done I’m sure. I believe a lot of the frustration comes from the fact that Mortal Kombat indeed has one of the strongest mythologies in fighting games. A decent back story packed with a subpar fighting engine.

Mortal Kombat indeed has one of the strongest mythologies in fighting games. A decent back story packed with a subpar fighting engine.

Recent MK games are some decent visual novels with various minigames that offfer you control over characters (one of them being game’s VS mode). When MK vs DC came out, I believe many people enjoyed its story mode …on Youtube.

MK games are often an unbalanced mess of a fighting game hidden under silly annual gimmicks. It’s lack of depth is a major point of issue. Also factor in the developer’s disinterest in making MK a truly competitive, tourny viable game. Me and my friends brainstormed better Mortal Kombat games than the ones that were released, just as many others have done I’m sure. I believe a lot of the frustration comes from the fact that Mortal Kombat indeed has one of the strongest mythologies in fighting games. A decent back story packed with a subpar fighting engine.

Not to mention that they keep recreating the fighting engine every single time they create a new game, which is extremely stupid from a development POV. I will never understand why Boon was so adamant about running MK into the ground. “Oh, all games have infinites, so we don’t care if Superman and The Flash have full-screen infinites from spamming the same one/two moves. Just watch our [media=youtube]luhqdWhTmG8#t=0m5s[/media] instead!”

What does everyone around here seem to hate about the Mortal Kombat games?I mean, I haven’t played any of those games in a while, but I remember the MK games in the mid 90’s alot more than I remembered the street fighter games. They seemed more well known and popular at that time.

yes, they were very popular and they made a lot of money. however, some hardcore FG players think FG companies should develop FG with their interests in mind (ie: being competitive, tournaments, etc) rather than being motivated purely by greed and profit. you know, like Capcom did with SF4. oops, bad example.

come to think of it, I didn’t care much about the MK gameplay itself and didn’t consider myself a fighting game enthusiast or guru. I mostly played 2-player mode (by myself) to practice my fatalities, babalities, animalities, etc. and trying to memorize the inputs for each of them.

Yeah, MKvDC just barely saved Midway from total ruin (for a little while), so people are buying. I suppose it’s similar to how Wii sales like hotcakes despite it not focusing on pulling core gamers. MK is not for core fighting gamers.

I hear UMK3 is the shit. If that game is fucking awesome why hasn’t it gotten more respect around here? Honestly curious. Would be nice to see more legit MK stuff around. And I think a lot of people want MK to be legit, because they have some really awesome characters.

I think a lot of people here want a viable competitive MK game because it sells. MK with 2 and 3 became more popular than SF, despite SF being a better game. The style was more approachble to the masses, I remember hearing far more hype for MK4 than SF3.

Also I think boon thinks he invented the fireball.

“since the beginning, one of the things that’s separated us from other fighting games is the crazy moves we’ve put in it, like fireballs and all the magic moves, so to speak.”